Mediating the Tourist Experience : From Brochures to Virtual Encounters.
Title:
Mediating the Tourist Experience : From Brochures to Virtual Encounters.
Author:
Scarles, Caroline.
ISBN:
9781409451075
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Series:
Current Developments in the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Mediating the Tourist Experience: From Brochures to Virtual Encounters -- 2 Media-Related Tourism Phenomena: A Review of the Key Issues -- 3 From the Landscape to the White Female Body: Representations of Postcolonial Luxury in Contemporary Tourism Visual Texts -- 4 A Necessary Glamorisation? Resident Perspectives on Promotional Literature and Images on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand -- 5 The Effect of British Natural History Television Programmes: Animal Representations and Wildlife Tourism -- 6 Internet Cultures and Tourist Expectations in the Context of the Public Media Discourse -- 7 A Comparative Analysis of the Projected and Perceived Images of Gloucester -- 8 Individualising the Tourist Brochure: Reconfiguring Tourism Experiences and Transforming the Classic Image-maker -- 9 The Mediatisation of Culture: Japanese Contents Tourism and Pop Culture -- 10 Developing the E-Mediated Gaze -- 11 Souvenir or Reconstruir? Editing Experience and Mediating Memories of Learning to Dive -- 12 The Mediation and Fetishisation of the Travel Experience -- 13 Being a Tourist or a Performer? Tourists' Negotiation with Mediated Destination Image in Popular Film -- 14 The Hollowed or Hallowed Ground of Orange County, California -- 15 Maps, Mapping and Materiality: Navigating London -- 16 Mediating Tourism: Future Directions? -- Index.
Abstract:
Traditionally, tourism media has referred to the image of destinations constructed through media texts such as brochures and postcards, with increasing attention towards other mediascapes such as films and television. Yet, with prolific advancements in technologies of media communication, such traditional formats have experienced a shift in the productive and consumptive practices through which they come into being. The possibilities of production and subsequent consumption are unequivocally changing the ways in which tourists imagine, understand and engage with destinations. This book therefore explores the role of tourism media and mediating practices in the development of non-linear processes of communication and understanding as both producers and consumers come together to negotiate the tourist experience. In varying ways it examines the emergent relationships and connections between media practices and tourism practices, everyday experiences and encounters of place. Collectively, the authors in this book address a range of media and technologies from brochures, television, video and film to mediated virtual spaces, such as e-brochures, Internet cultures, social networks, and Google Earth. In doing so, the book highlights the continued significance of media in tourism contexts; recognising both traditional and newer technologies, and the non-linear, continuous cycle of mediated representations and experiences.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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